Red maple derives
its name from its brilliant autumn foliage. While common in swamps all over the state, it
is also abundant on moist slopes and increasingly common in partially cut woodlots. It is
an extremely rapid-growing tree, furnishing a fairly strong, close-grained wood,
extensively used for cheap furniture, in the manufacture of baskets and crates, for mine
props, railroad ties, and fuelwood.

Bark - on
young trunks smooth, light gray in color, often resembling beech; with age becoming darker
and roughened into long ridges, often shaggy or scaly on surface; bark character extremely
variable on different trees in the same stand.

Twigs - rather slender, bright or dark red in
color, without odor when cut or broken.